diff --git a/Doc/changelog.docu b/Doc/changelog.docu
index 5ff01c21..77fca00a 100644
--- a/Doc/changelog.docu
+++ b/Doc/changelog.docu
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
 
 
-<tr valign=top><td><b>8.0</b> (?/?/?)</td><td>
+<tr valign=top><td><b>8.0</b> (2019/02/21)</td><td>
 
 <b>Breaking changes:</b>
 <ul>
diff --git a/release.howto b/release.howto
index c8e9a160..dae655c7 100644
--- a/release.howto
+++ b/release.howto
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-1. check files, build on windows,mac,linux with cmake
+1. check files, build on windows,mac,linux with cmake (-> Done by CI)
 2. check files with release numbers:
    cmake/FindOpenMesh.cmake
    Doc/changelog.docu
    src/OpenMesh/Core/System/config.h
    README
    VERSION
-3. Tag the current version in the svn (checkout, remove .svn readd as tag)
-4. Create HTML-Documentation in OpenMesh/Docu/ (!)
-5. Create tar-ball and zip-archive
+3. Tag the current version in the git 
+4. Create HTML-Documentation in OpenMesh/Documentation (!)
+5. Create tar-ball and zip-archive ( -> Done by CI)
    > tar cvzf OpenMesh-<version>.tar.gz OpenMesh-<version>/
    > tar cvjf OpenMesh-<version>.tar.bz2 OpenMesh-<version>/
    > zip -9 -r OpenMesh-<version>.zip OpenMesh-<version>/